Darrel Baumgardner (RAF) participated in the Electronic Emissary Program that links scientists with classrooms around the country via email. He worked with a class of fifth graders in Dallas, Texas, on an experiment to demonstrate how radiative processes affect global climate. This activity involved traveling to Dallas to meet with the class and to give a presentation on the impact of particles on climate. Baumgardner also gave presentations on climate to elementary school classes in Concord, North Carolina, and to a high school physics class in Gainesville, Georgia.
Darrel Baumgardner (RAF) served as a technical mentor to Janell Cobb, a graduate student at Colorado State University and a participant in the NCAR Significant Opportunities in Atmospheric Research for Students (SOARS) program.
Darrel Baumgardner (RAF) collaborated with and advised Tim Onasch of the University of Colorado, who is using NCAR MASP measurements in his dissertation project.
Tony Delany (SSSF) supervised Jennifer Price, an undergraduate student working in the SOARS program. Price participated in the CASES-97 field project and analyzed the chemical flux data collected during the project. She prepared a report on the data analysis methods she used, and presented a poster on the same topic at the SOARS colloquium.As part of an ongoing collaboration with the University of Colorado’s Department of Environmental Population and Organismic Biology, Tony Delany (SSSF) participated in the development of the Colorado University Flux Facility (CUFF). He also serves as a thesis committee member for Dave Bowling, a graduate student. Delany and Bowling have collaborated in the development of several Relaxed Eddy Accumulator (REA) instruments. These systems have been devised to determine the flux of emitted biogenic hydrocarbons and to determine the carbon and oxygen isotopic ratios of exchanged carbon dioxide and water.
Jeffrey Keeler (RSF) presented seminars at the University of Miami, the National Central University (Taiwan), and the University of Maryland (with NASA/GSFC) on RSF instrumentation and activities.
Greg Kok (RAF) gave two lectures at Colorado State University on aircraft-based atmospheric chemistry measurements as part of an advanced class on atmospheric measurements.In conjunction with John Birks and John Bognar of the University of Colorado, Greg Kok (RAF) flight-tested a miniature CO analyzer based on the mercuric oxide reduction technique. The measurements were compared to those from a gas filter correlation CO analyzer operated by RAF. A preliminary analysis of the data shows good agreement between the two instruments.
Krista Laursen (RAF) gave an invited guest lecture in the Physics Department at the University of Oregon. The lecture, entitled "Energy and the Earth's Climate: A Brief Look at Critical Interrelationships and Key Questions", was given at the request of Stanley Micklavzina for a class entitled "Physics of Energy and the Environment."
Wen-Chau Lee (RSF) served on a doctoral dissertation committee for Da Gang Pan at St. Louis University.
David Parsons (SSSF) served as a member of the affiliate faculty in the Atmospheric Sciences Department at Colorado State University until April 1997.
Mike Spowart (RAF) gave a talk on the RAF data system at the International Symposium of the Instrumentation Society of America (ISA) in Orlando.
In April-May 1997, RAF hosted a student intern from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Caspar Buettner. Buettner worked with Cynthia Twohy in performing computational fluid dynamics calculations of airflow through aircraft inlets, and in compiling summary microphysical data taken in cirrus clouds during the SUCCESS field program.
Joe VanAndel (RSF) continued to aid science teacher Scott Dixon at Centennial Middle School in maintaining and improving their computer lab.
Tammy Weckwerth (RSF) participated in Project LEARN (Laboratory Experience in Atmospheric Research at NCAR) in June. She presented a lecture about the vertical structure of the atmosphere to the LEARN participants. These included numerous high school teachers from rural Colorado school districts.
Tammy Weckwerth (RSF) also presented a seminar on "Radar and Its Applications In Mesoscale Meteorology" to undergraduate meteorology students at Lyndon State College, VT in November.
Jim Wilson (RSF) mentored COMET student Pam MacKeean of NSSL. He also gave a 1½ day lecture and laboratory session on thunderstorm forecasting for the COMET Mesoscale Meteorology course, as well as for the WMO/COMET International Workshop on Very Short-Range and Short Range prediction.
Jim Wilson (RSF) gave a series of seven lectures to NWS forecasters on thunderstorm forecasting while in Sterling, VA as part of the U.S. Weather Research Program.